‍Challengs of Applying Plurality of Crime Rules on Legal Persons

Regarding to acceptance of criminal responsibility of legal Persons and punishment determination for these Persons in Islamic Penal Code (IPC) approved in 2013. This question arises how to execute plurality of crime rules towards guilty legal persons similar to real persons. Answering to this question, on hand is simple and on the other hand is difficult. It is simple since criminal responsibility of legal persons in Iranian Criminal Law has been accepted and also the real persons do not have distinctive character to allocate the concurrence rule for them. It is difficult since acceptance of criminal responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law is still young and transition from humanist look of Islamic Criminal Law to the persons, brings many challenges in the way of applying plurality of crime rules to the legal persons. On of the most important Challenges provided at article 20 of the criminal code is integration and extraneous nature of the legal persons punishment. These challenges put an stable obstacle in the way of execution of constructive plurality of crime rules. In addition to mentioned above, in accordance with article 134 of the criminal code related to the legal persons, execution of real plurality of crime rules has been met challenges such as not determination of aggravated punishment and then severity punishment and prosecutor’s authority in determination of tow punishment for legal persons. Above challenges would be made impossible execution of real plurality of crime rules on legal persons similar to real persons.